Jul 31, 2016

Thanks for posting that video of the three
of us surfing Gilligan's on our mats, and you would have noticed Neal
riding with this crazy back mount, go pro attached?

Well here is the end result....

Very
pleased with the omni, putting it into some great waves of late, its
winter and pumping swells here at the moment, but mainly ride our mats
at the Island and a few other bomboras, still love pulling out a
kneeboard , spoon or spacecraft, depending on what type of wave we are
riding to mix it up and keep my surfing fresh.

Jul 29, 2016

Jul 28, 2016

Jul 25, 2016

I appreciate you taking a look at my favorite mat and seeing if anything can be done to keep it going. In addition, I would like to order a new one just in case it is terminal! Same kind Omni unless you have any suggestions idea? I'm 215-220lbs, strong in the water and love to ride my mat.

I started on a Standard then went to an Omni. My daughter Sarah still uses Standard, but I will nab it for tomorrow's Cabo/East Cape trip. I've surfed my Omni world wide from point breaks in South Africa to some exotic South Pacific reefs.

I'm still getting some great rides on the Omni, just have to blow it up every couple rides, no problem if you can not fix it. I will ride it until it departs for Mat Heaven!

Let me know how much I owe for the new one. I am off to Cabo tomorrow morning, will check email periodically.

This was a solo session in South Pacific Reef pass a little too much water
for surfing and the break in general but really fun on a mat!

Here a re a couple of more fotos Sarah took of me one morning last winter. I am blessed to be able to surf waves like this all by myself, not that I wouldn't mind sharing them with others. I'm in San Jose now, there was some left over swell from the hurricanes, but boat is a mess so I am in work mode.

Jul 18, 2016

Jul 14, 2016

Our own mat fanatic and in-house marketing guru, Dirk Brandts (or "D.B. Cooper," as he once claimed) has apparently been spared any further hardship resulting from a youthful misadventure that, ultimately, became a part of American folklore.

"Allegedly hijacked," Dirk was quick to point out as we stood in line at Starbucks. "And it was more like 25,000 feet."

With an uncanny likeness to the FBI sketch of "D.B. Cooper," as well as the matching initials, it's hard to image why someone hasn't dropped a dime on Dirk by now...

But Dirk has been fiendishly clever during his decades on the run!

He's done most of his surfing in the shadows of dawn or dusk...

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He's deftly blended in with beach goers who are, for lack of a better phrase, mildly eccentric...

Perhaps his cleverest ruse was the 19 years he posed as a ex-pat British surf cameraman. His highly affected, working class cockney accent was so awesome, he was tapped to lecture in acting classes all over West Los Angeles!

"I wish I could say that the whole 'F.B.I. is throwing-in-the-towel ' thing is a relief to me," Dirk commented as he paid for our lattes with an old, smelly, heavily soiled $20 bill. "But the accusations were all just an overstuffed couch filled with speculation in the first place, eh?"